11-letter words containing d, e, n, u
- double-ring — being or pertaining to a marriage ceremony in which the partners give rings to one another.
- doublethink — the acceptance of two contradictory ideas or beliefs at the same time.
- douchecanoe — (vulgar, slang, pejorative) A rude, obnoxious, or contemptible person.
- doughtiness — steadfastly courageous and resolute; valiant.
- drama queen — Informal. a person who often has exaggerated or overly emotional reactions to events or situations: You're such a drama queen! You always have to have all the attention.
- draughtsmen — Plural form of draughtsman.
- draw runner — loper.
- dreadnaught — a type of battleship armed with heavy-caliber guns in turrets: so called from the British battleship Dreadnought, launched in 1906, the first of its type.
- dreadnought — a type of battleship armed with heavy-caliber guns in turrets: so called from the British battleship Dreadnought, launched in 1906, the first of its type.
- dressing-up — When children play at dressing-up, they put on special or different clothes and pretend to be different people.
- drouthiness — the state or condition of being thirsty or dry
- druckenness — the state of being drunk
- drug runner — a person that illegally takes recreational drugs into a country
- druid stone — sarsen.
- drumbeating — That to beat on drums.
- drunkalogue — an account of a person’s problems with alcohol
- drunkenness — intoxicated; drunk.
- drunkometer — a device for measuring the amount of alcohol in a person's breath to determine the amount of alcohol in the bloodstream.
- du guesclin — Bertrand [ber-trahn] /bɛrˈtrɑ̃/ (Show IPA), ("the Eagle of Brittany") c1320–80, French military leader: constable of France 1370–80.
- du vigneaud — Vincent, 1901–78, U.S. biochemist: Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1955.
- dual number — a grammatical number category referring to exactly two persons or things
- dubiousness — doubtful; marked by or occasioning doubt: a dubious reply.
- dues-paying — gaining experience, especially by hard and often unpleasant or uncongenial work: He spent his dues-paying years as a cocktail pianist.
- dumbed down — (jargon) Simplified, with a strong connotation of *over*simplified. Often, a marketroid will insist that the interfaces and documentation of software be dumbed down after the designer has burned untold gallons of midnight oil making it smart. This creates friction. See user-friendly.
- dumbfounded — to make speechless with amazement; astonish.
- dumpishness — the state of being downhearted and dejected
- duncanville — a town in N Texas.
- dundee cake — a fairly rich fruit cake decorated with almonds
- dunderheads — Plural form of dunderhead.
- dundrearies — an expression for long whiskers or side-burns on the side of the face when present without a beard
- dunfermline — an administrative district in E Scotland, in the Fife region. 120 sq. mi. (311 sq. km).
- dung beetle — any of various scarab beetles that feed on or breed in dung.
- duniewassal — a gentleman, especially a cadet of a ranking family, among the Highlanders of Scotland.
- duo-decagon — dodecagon.
- duplex scan — a scan that uses sound waves to show how well the blood is flowing in arteries
- duplicident — (of certain animals, such as rabbits) having two pairs of incisors in the upper jaw
- durableness — Durability.
- dust kitten — a dust ball.
- dutch uncle — a person who criticizes or reproves with unsparing severity and frankness.
- dutifulness — The state of being dutiful.
- dyspareunia — painful coitus.
- edrophonium — a substance, C 10 H 16 BrNO, used to reverse certain muscle-relaxing agents, such as tubocurarine, in surgical procedures: also used in the diagnosis of myasthenia gravis.
- educational — pertaining to education.
- edutainment — television programs, movies, books, etc., that are both educational and entertaining, especially those intended primarily for children in the elementary grades.
- eglandulose — eglandular
- elucidating — Present participle of elucidate.
- elucidation — Explanation that makes something clear; clarification.
- encountered — Simple past tense and past participle of encounter.
- end product — result of a process
- endeavoured — Simple past tense and past participle of endeavour.